KO, two TKOs highlight first Mike Tyson boxing show at Sands.

The KO Kings of Tomorrow didn't exactly deliver what it promised in seven fights at the Sands Bethlehem Event Center on Saturday night.

The KO Kings of Tomorrow, the first stand-alone boxing card promoted by Mike Tyson and Garry Jonas under the Iron Mike Productions banner, didn't wait for tomorrow. The fighters produced some Saturday night knockouts in front of a crowd that filled only about one half of the arena.

The knockouts — one by Humberto "El Don" Savigne and technical knockouts by Erickson Lubin and Pennsylvania's Samuel Vasquez — highlighted the evening's action, which took almost four full hours to complete the seven-bout card.

Savigne, the fourth-ranked light heavyweight by the WBA, knocked Maxell Taylor's mouthpiece out of his mouth in the first round of their scheduled eight-rounder.

Savigne (12-1, 9 KOs) unleased a right hook to Taylor's forehead that froze and then dropped Taylor (18-7-1) to the canvas, with referee Gary Rosado immediately calling the knockout 1:11 into the second round.

Vasquez, of Monessen in western Pennsylvania, brought the biggest — and most vocal — following in a battle of undefeated welterweights.

A southpaw and former Army and Armed Forces boxing champ, Vasquez rocked Berlin Abreu (7-1) with some good shots in the second round, but Abreu landed a hard right cross that put Vasquez on the canvas.

Vasquez (13-0, 9 KOs) rallied in the third by doubling up with his left to stun Abreu momentarily, then punished him in a neutral corner before the end of the round. Vasquez charged out at the start of the fourth round and sent a flurry of nonstop punishing blows that put Abreu (7-1), a Dominican fighting out of Rhode Island, into that same neutral corner. Referee Steve Smoker rushed in to stop the fight at 23 seconds of the round for a technical knockout.

Greg Sirb, executive director of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission, delayed the start of the bout for several minutes to check a brace on Abreu's right knee.

The announced main event actually came third on the seven-bout card with Claudio "The Matrix" Marrero scoring a unanimous eight-round over journeyman Jose Angel Beranza from Mexico.

Marrero (15-1, 11 KOs) is ranked No. 9 by the WBA and seemed patient throughout the bout, using dazzling evasive moves that drew "oohs and aahs" from the crowd. He began asserting himself in the third round with some heavy punches. The two had some nice exchanges in the fourth round. Both fighters got sloppy and dirty in the sixth round, with both being warned for shots to the back of the head and Marrero warned for lifting Beranza (36-29) off the canvas in apparent frustration.

In the final bout of the evening, Juan Carlos Payano, the No. 2 bantamweight by the WBA, knocked down German Meraz (46-29-1) in the second round with a savage flurry of punches after Meraz went for a body clinch and drove his shoulder into Payano's chin. Payano (15-0), another Dominican in Tyson's stable, woke up after that and forced the pace. Both fighters had slips to the canvas over the next few rounds with Payano on slipping in the third and Meraz a total of five times for the rest of the fight.

Alexi "The Mexican-Cuban" Collado (18-0, 16 KOs) ranked No. 14 by the WBA, displayed some impressive power with his left hand in the opening round, rocking Mexico's Edgar "Basuras" Riovalle (36-17) several times in the first two rounds.

Riovalle put on a little flash-and-dash in the fourth round and visibly shook Collado with a big left hand. Collado went on the retreat and took several more hard shots, and Riovalle mocked him. Both fighters mocked each other at the end of the fifth round as Riovalle began to land some big combinations that continually rocked Collado.

Still, Collado came out on top of all three judges scorecards 78-74 in the eight-round super featherweight bout.

Erikson "The Hammer" Lubin of Orlando, a former PAL national champion, pummeled Tirobia Ball with hard shots to the body and the head and scored a knockdown just before the end of the first round of their scheduled four-round welterweight fight. The 18-year-old Lubin, a 3-0 southpaw, used the "Ali" showboat left hand to an uppercut twice in the second round and started turning hooks with the right and left. Smoker ended the bout as a technical knockout 2:01 in the third round after Ball, from Meridian, Miss., was trapped in his own corner and couldn't defend himself.

"We've been in the gym working on patience, picking him apart and stuff," Lubin said. "That's just what I did today."

Farid Aghayev of Azerbaijan, a country most known for its wrestling prowess, needed every point he earned over the first three rounds in a draw against a bloodied Lanny Dardar of New Orleans. Dardar rocked Aghayev (2-0) at least four times with the right hand in the final round of the four-round middleweight bout. One judge scored it 39-37 for Ahayev while two scored it 38-38.

While IMP's goal is to produce monthly shows at the SBEC, the next show isn't scheduled for there until late April.